Nitrogen

Sunrise New Energy Files for China Patent Award, the Highest Honor in Intellectual Property Rights

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Friday, January 12, 2024

ZIBO, China, Jan. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  Sunrise New Energy Co., Ltd. (“Sunrise”, the “Company”, “we” or “our”) (NASDAQ: EPOW), announced today that its subsidiary, Sunrise (Guizhou) New Energy Materials Co., Ltd. has announced its application for the prestigious China Patent Award, which is regarded as the foremost recognition in the field of intellectual property rights in China.

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  • ZIBO, China, Jan. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  Sunrise New Energy Co., Ltd. (“Sunrise”, the “Company”, “we” or “our”) (NASDAQ: EPOW), announced today that its subsidiary, Sunrise (Guizhou) New Energy Materials Co., Ltd. has announced its application for the prestigious China Patent Award, which is regarded as the foremost recognition in the field of intellectual property rights in China.
  • Established in 1989, the China Patent Award is jointly organized by the State Intellectual Property Office of China and the World Intellectual Property Organization, with the aim of promoting and commending patented inventions and creations.
  • Sunrise has submitted its invention patent titled "Method for the Preparation of Negative Electrode Materials for Lithium-ion Batteries" (ZL202210400775.2).
  • "We are honored to be recommended by multiple academicians and participate in the highest-level patent evaluation in China.

Cibus Announces Major Breakthrough in Wheat Regeneration from Single Cells

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Breakthrough believed to represent the world’s first successful regeneration of a wheat plant from single cells – a major breakthrough for Cibus and for the seed industry.

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  • Breakthrough believed to represent the world’s first successful regeneration of a wheat plant from single cells – a major breakthrough for Cibus and for the seed industry.
  • Provides another single cell regeneration system to make Cibus’ High Throughput Breeding Process (the “Trait Machine™ System”) operational for a key cereal crop integral to food security globally.
  • Wheat breakthrough demonstrates the Company’s continued success in developing scalable high throughput breeding platforms that can operate as extensions of seed company breeding programs.
  • This is a major breakthrough for Cibus as well as for the industry.

Global Peptone Market Analysis Report 2023: A $150+ Million Market in 2022 - Industry Size, Share, Trends, Opportunities, and Forecasts, 2018-2028 - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Friday, January 12, 2024

The "Peptone Market - Global Industry Size, Share, Trends, Opportunity, and Forecast, 2018-2028F" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

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  • The "Peptone Market - Global Industry Size, Share, Trends, Opportunity, and Forecast, 2018-2028F" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • Peptone is composed of peptides of varying lengths, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and other organic and inorganic compounds.
  • Peptone serves as a rich source of nutrients, particularly nitrogen, for microorganisms such as bacteria, yeast, and fungi.
  • Regional Dominance in North America:
    North America, particularly the United States, dominates the peptone market due to its robust biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry.

OptiFuel’s Total-Zero™ 5600 hp RNG-Electric Line Haul Locomotive and RNG-Powered Tender are on Track for Testing at the Federal Railroad Administration’s Transportation Technology Center

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Thursday, January 11, 2024

The RNG-powered line haul locomotive produces 5100 hp of continuous power from zero emission Cummins RNG engines using OptiFuel’s Quick-Power™ technology with a peak power of 5600 hp with the standard LFP battery pack.

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  • The RNG-powered line haul locomotive produces 5100 hp of continuous power from zero emission Cummins RNG engines using OptiFuel’s Quick-Power™ technology with a peak power of 5600 hp with the standard LFP battery pack.
  • Partially funded with a Department of Energy (DOE) grant, the program will perform pre-production testing at the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) Transportation Technology Center (TTC) for 12 months.
  • In 2026, OptiFuel will start a 2-year, 1-million-mile test program with ten pre-production 5600 hp RNG line haul locomotives and five 10,000 DGE RNG tenders operating around the US.
  • The RNG line haul locomotive is estimated to be priced around $5.5 million and can be purchased or leased.

Tranter to supply heat exchangers to carbon capture application in a new blue hydrogen plant in Texas, United States

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Thursday, January 11, 2024

The heat exchangers were ordered by a major EPC contractor in gas processing, separation and liquefaction technologies.

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  • The heat exchangers were ordered by a major EPC contractor in gas processing, separation and liquefaction technologies.
  • The blue hydrogen plant will be built in Texas, United States and will supply hydrogen and nitrogen for production of blue ammonia in the region and will provide clean hydrogen to companies in the US Gulf Coast, decarbonizing their operations.
  • "Tranter was an early runner with plate and frame heat exchangers in post combustion carbon capture pilot plants back in 2010-2011, where we gained in-depth knowledge of the application, process, design and operation of carbon capture plants.
  • Tranter is a global manufacturer of gasketed and welded plate heat exchangers and an aftermarket service provider for the plate heat exchanger industry.

Tranter to supply heat exchangers to carbon capture application in a new blue hydrogen plant in Texas, United States

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, January 11, 2024

The heat exchangers were ordered by a major EPC contractor in gas processing, separation and liquefaction technologies.

Key Points: 
  • The heat exchangers were ordered by a major EPC contractor in gas processing, separation and liquefaction technologies.
  • The blue hydrogen plant will be built in Texas, United States and will supply hydrogen and nitrogen for production of blue ammonia in the region and will provide clean hydrogen to companies in the US Gulf Coast, decarbonizing their operations.
  • "Tranter was an early runner with plate and frame heat exchangers in post combustion carbon capture pilot plants back in 2010-2011, where we gained in-depth knowledge of the application, process, design and operation of carbon capture plants.
  • Tranter is a global manufacturer of gasketed and welded plate heat exchangers and an aftermarket service provider for the plate heat exchanger industry.

What happens to the ocean if we take out all the fish? A marine ecologist explains the complex roles fish play in their ecosystem

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Monday, January 8, 2024

What would happen to the ocean if we took out all the fish?

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  • What would happen to the ocean if we took out all the fish?
  • – Reny, age 12
    What would happen to the ocean if we took out all the fish?
  • – Reny, age 12 The ocean is massive and covers most of the surface of our planet.
  • These fish perform all kinds of roles in their ecosystems that support the lives of other organisms around them.


I’m a scientist who studies fish, their diversity and all the ways they contribute to ocean environments.

Fish as food


Fish play important roles as both predators and prey in ocean ecosystems. Thousands of species throughout the ocean and terrestrial ecosystems rely on fish for food – including people. In coral reef ecosystems, small fish are eaten by larger fish and other marine animals. This means the little fish form the base of the food web – they provide energy to the bigger fish and other creatures.

  • Outside of the water, many birds, mammals and reptiles eat fish and rely on them as an essential source of protein.
  • Even land plants can benefit from the presence of fish.
  • Humans also depend on fish as a food source.

Fish maintain habitats

  • As fish themselves forage for food, they can create and maintain important habitats for other organisms.
  • Without the help of these herbivores, or plant-eating fish, the algae would rapidly grow and smother the coral, effectively killing it.
  • Other fish create habitats for other animals and influence their environment by disturbing sand while they feed.
  • Despite the fact that many types of fish are confined to the ocean, their presence can be felt across many habitats.


Kory Evans receives funding from National Science Foundation.

Bion’s Ammonia Recovery Technology Optimization Moves to Final Design

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Thursday, January 4, 2024

Bion will now begin the final design process for full-scale systems.

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  • Bion will now begin the final design process for full-scale systems.
  • Bion’s ARS produces premium fertilizer products from the volatile ammonia in livestock waste.
  • Final economic and energy efficiency models will be validated during the final design process, which should be completed in the first quarter of 2024.
  • Operating results to date at Fair Oaks indicate ARS performance will exceed initial expectations for ammonia recovery and economics.

How industrial agriculture is disturbing the nitrogen cycle and undermining conditions for life on Earth

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Six of our nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed – and industrial agriculture are the main culprit.

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  • Six of our nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed – and industrial agriculture are the main culprit.
  • This notion of overstepping boundaries is clear in regard to the best-known limit of them all: that of climate change.
  • Yet in the case of the planetary boundary for nitrogen, exceeding the threshold is different, as it is the industrialisation of agriculture that is largely, and more complexly, responsible for breaking the limit.
  • But how can agriculture affect the nitrogen cycle?

The natural nitrogen cycle

  • First, we need to understand the natural cycle of carbon and nitrogen – two of the main elements that form living matter.
  • So, the boundaries of the nitrogen cycle have to remain local: any loss of nitrogen brings about a risk of soil depletion, which jeopardises continued plant growth.
  • The amount of nitrogen that is lost in the atmosphere and in groundwater is therefore considerable, and this loss makes nitrogen the main limiting factor in plant growth.
  • They do so through a symbiotic association with bacteria that have enzymes needed to convert molecular nitrogen into proteins.
  • It is this symbiotic fixation that offsets the natural environmental loss of nitrogen and ensures that terrestrial ecosystems function perennially.

Farming and fertilisation

  • Each time plants are harvested, the nitrogen contained in them is carried far away from the plot of soil where it came from.
  • That is the purpose of fertilisation.
  • There are many methods of fertilisation.
  • Indeed, this method was the basis of traditional systems of polyculture and livestock farming.
  • They quickly made traditional polyculture and livestock farming obsolete and paved the way to intensified and specialised agriculture, which was henceforth coupled with the heavy chemical industry.

Environmental nitrogen loss

  • In this accelerated flow of nitrogen, what causes trouble is the environmental nitrogen loss that results from it.
  • Indeed, the more nitrogenous fertilisers are used to increase crop yields, the less the added nitrogen is effective and the greater the losses through leaching and volatilisation.
  • What we call the nitrogen surplus is the excess of nitrogen put into the soil in relation to the quantity actually taken away through harvesting.

Feeding the world without ruining it

  • But can we reasonably scale down intensive farming without jeopardising the food security of a world that will have 10 billion mouths to feed by 2050?
  • Yet we can only do so if three major structural changes are made to the entire agrifood system at the same time as intensive agriculture is toned down.
  • On the contrary, this model of agriculture has now been clearly identified as a factor that disturbs the Earth’s system profoundly.
  • AFP and The Conversation France have maintained their editorial independence at every stage of the project.


Gilles Billen ne travaille pas, ne conseille pas, ne possède pas de parts, ne reçoit pas de fonds d'une organisation qui pourrait tirer profit de cet article, et n'a déclaré aucune autre affiliation que son organisme de recherche.

Mitsubishi Corporation and Amogy with SK Innovation join forces to unlock the potential of Amogy's ammonia cracking technology in Japan and South Korea

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Upon the completion of the initial phase, three companies are looking to explore joint pilot opportunities in the strategic regions.

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  • Upon the completion of the initial phase, three companies are looking to explore joint pilot opportunities in the strategic regions.
  • Ammonia, a versatile and widely used chemical compound, has emerged as a promising renewable fuel and a cost-effective carrier of hydrogen.
  • In addition, Amogy's ammonia cracking technology is expected to have high potential to be utilized as hydrogen carrier in large-scale transportation.
  • Both Mitsubishi Corporation and SK Innovation have participated in Amogy's recent $150M Series B fundraising which was led by SK Innovation.